The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-05-26

Moon heard, and she never told but
when day dawned there was great won
der and rejoicing in the meadow, for the
fern screen was down, the gold and pur-
pie flowers stood side by side, while the
Maple scattered rosy leaves over them
as he sung a wedding hymn, and the old
Rock said, as the sunshine fell upon his
gray 'front.'
''lt is always so. Only believe, work
and wait, and in the fitness OF time right
wins. and Justice, truth and love shall
reign"
Whiskey and the Internal Revenue.
The dlstIlleries of the country are very
| active Just now. There are over five
hundred of them running, nearly $50 in
fact, and they are turning out ntoXicants
at the rate Of over BOO, 600 gallons a day.
they are destroying over seventy thous-
and bushels of corn day and over seven
thousand gallons of molasscs daily. This
IS the busy time Of the year with the
dlstlllers. During this month and next
there will bc running between six and
seven hundred distilcres in the country
Six months from now there will probab-
~ be no more than a couple of hundred
Of them running, though there are near
ly twelve hundred in all in the country
These six hundred and fifty now at work
are the legitimate ones, that is to say
those that pay taxes and report to the
government the business which they do
Besides that number there arc lot OF
them running ilegitimately, moonshin-
ing. The fund provided for the proven
ton of Illicit distilling by the last Con
gress has pretty much given out, and tho
distllers know it. Your average moon
hiner is pretty shrewd fellow, AMI nc
manages in some way to keep posted or
the workings Of tho department. The
money for the detection of moonshiner>
and for breaking up their stills ran low
several weeks ago, and the department.
was unable to respond to the demands
ct the revenue officers for moro deputies
The distliicrs promptly caught on to the
situation and the result is that moon
sinners are beginning to be very active
in Kentucky, Tennessee, Northern Ala
bama, Georgia and North Carolina.
kentucky is making more whiskey to-
day than any other State. Her $50 dis
tillerles now running are turning ont one
hundred thousand gallons of Bourbon
whiskey daily. Six months from now
there will not be half this number run
ming, and they will only be turning out
perhaps twenty thousand gallons a day
North Carolina has the largest number
of distllleries, the number now running
in that State being something over two
| I'm, Nnt Inv n,
! two thousand gallons a day. an aver
1 age OF less than ten gallons apiece. Or
the other hand, Illinois with only eigh-
teen distilleries turns out eighty thous
and gallons day and does that the yeal
round.
Illinois makes more whiskey than any
other State in the Union. She turns out
nearly twenty-five million gallons year
while Kentucky makes but fifteen mil
lion gallons. Tho Illinois dislilleries rui
about the same all the year round, while
the Kentucky fellows shut down in the
summer. 1t would be more nearly cor
rect to say that Illinois makes more
spirits than any other State, for really
very little Of the article that is turned
out from the distllerics Of the State is
| HlSnG'. Itltv iilN1ll titl tlic pIS
distilelies now make is known to the
trade as ''colognc spirits" This article
is about the same as alcohol except that
it is even more absolute in its purity
than alcohol When these big distiller-
les that make this cologne spirits begil
running off the products Of their huge
mash tubs they run the first part us al
cohol. 1t has a slight tinge Of color and
is not as absolute in its purity as that
which follows later on. The operator
watches the stream of liquor as it comes
from the tub. and as he sees it becomes
absolutely pare turns it into another
tank, and it is termed cologne spirits
This is the highest grade of distilled
spirits, SO pure that it is absolutely col
orless and odorcss. 1t is concentrated
drunkenness, and when it is wanted tC
be transformed into Whiskey it is reduc-
ed to about one-half its strength with
water, some burnt sugar put in to give it
a color, some glucose added to make it
smooth and oily. like old whiskey. and it
passes for the real old article Many
q supposed connolsscur has smackcd his
lips over alleged twenty-sN year old
whiskey and pronounced it the finest in
the country, when in reality the article
he was complimenting was cologne spir-
its only a month old, Favored with glu-
c0Sa
Political Points.